Ex-gang boss sentenced to 40 years for orchestrating Tupac Shakur's murder
The former gang leader received credit for 731 days already served after jurors found he plotted the 1996 shooting in retaliation, prosecutors said.
- On Tuesday, October 13, 2026, Judge Carli Kierny sentenced Duane 'Keffe D' Davis to 40 years to life for orchestrating the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, with 731 days of credit for time served.
- Prosecutors secured the conviction without a murder weapon by utilizing Davis's own admissions from his 2019 memoir and 2008 police interviews after Judge Kierny ruled the proffer agreement void.
- Davis, a former leader of the Southside Compton Crips, orchestrated the shooting in retaliation for a fight between his nephew, Orlando 'Baby Lane' Anderson, and Shakur's entourage at the MGM Grand earlier that night.
- Davis claimed to police that Sean 'Diddy' Combs offered him a million dollars to kill the rapper, but Combs denied the allegation in a statement to CNN, characterizing it as a bid for notoriety.
- Although often linked to the 1997 murder of Christopher Wallace, the trial focused exclusively on the Shakur investigation, and Davis remains the only person ever charged or convicted in the death of the 25-year-old star.
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*More than three decades after Tupac Shakur was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip, the man accused of planning the attack learned his fate Tuesday. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, received 40 years to life in prison from Judge Carli Kierny after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder in August, Reuters is reporting. … The post Man Who Orchestrated Tupac’s Murder Gets 40 Years to Life, But Who Fired the Shots? | VIDEO appeared first on EURweb | …
After his conviction in August, the former gang member was sentenced on Tuesday, 30 years after the death of rap legend. Duane Davis' defence has already announced that he wants to appeal.
(San Francisco = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kwon Young-jeon = The gang leader who ordered and conspired to kill legendary American hip-hop rapper Tupac (2Pac Shakur) [crime] 30...
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